The Alabama Baptist State Convention convenes today in Marion, the first assembly of this body during the war years. Southern Baptist divine and Chaplain to the Confederacy Basil Manly, Sr. opens the meeting in prayer. As in other assemblages of Southern Baptist associations and state conventions this fall, war is uppermost in the minds of…
Today Jefferson Davis (a Kentucky native, like Abraham Lincoln) is elected as president of the Confederate States of America, following his service to this point as provisional president. The November election is confirmed in February, when electors from the Confederate States – each state having the same numbers of electors as they have members in…
This week’s Tennessee Baptist, reprinting a story from the Richmond Daily Dispatch, sings the praises of patriotic southern women: The regular correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, writing from Halifax Court House, remarks on the spirit of patriotism that so generally pervades the gentler sex and furnishes the following in illustration: I was much amused at…